No experience but I wonder if it has the right structure and type of growth? I think most plants which are cloud pruned have small leaves dense twiggy growth whereas bay is quite lax. Having said that if you started with a young plant the growth would presumably get denser the more you clipped it?
As said if you have a plant give it a try but yes please please update us on progress
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We have two large bay trees here and both are multi-stemmed in a mostly vertical sort of way. I have raised the crown on one to shoulder height leaving the bare, almost straight stems visible and letting us see beyond it rather than having a big heavy green blob. Not really suitable for the kind of cloud pruning that leaves clusters of foliage at the end of stems..
The other is planted on a short steep slope between two levels and handy for the kitchen so I just take off the occasional leaf for cooking.
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@Obelixx ... what about if you had raised each individual crown to a different height, then hard-pruned each individual head so it thickened up to develop as you would a lollipop. I think that could look quite like cloud pruning? 😊
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Not very easy to see, but there's a cloud-pruned bay at the back of this border (photo from Jake's Niwaki blog). Worth a shot I reckon, this looks really good!
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East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
He regularly demonstrates how to prune garden trees to give it that bonsai look, ie creating layers and pads.
The other is planted on a short steep slope between two levels and handy for the kitchen so I just take off the occasional leaf for cooking.
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
However, it does work with small leaved, evergreen plants like box, yew, small leaved privets, some conifers..........
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
Not very easy to see, but there's a cloud-pruned bay at the back of this border (photo from Jake's Niwaki blog). Worth a shot I reckon, this looks really good!